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With Helen Bauer, you understand what you're in for right out of the gate. If you hadn’t come from her beloved podcast Trusty Hogs or any of her televi... Read more »

The festival with the best acronym returns this October with a full enough programme to satisfy even the hungriest LGBTQ+ filmgoer. Scottish Queer Inter... Read more »

Out of Scotland’s creative landscape emerges a film festival scene that will be familiar to Skinny readers. There are, of course, the biggies: Glasgow ... Read more »

There are many reasons to recommend attending Glasgow Short Film Festival, from its flawlessly curated Bill Douglas competition for international shorts to i... Read more »

SQIFF is the latest Scottish film festival to embrace the brave new world of online film exhibition and events. The sixth edition of the much-loved fest... Read more »

In the space of four editions, the Scottish Queer International Film Festival has proven itself to be one of the most vibrant and forward-thinking events on ... Read more »

Many industries have taken a hit during the coronavirus pandemic, but among the worst-affected must surely be red carpet manufacturers. Not a foot of the stu... Read more »

As its title suggests, Road, Movie is a self-conscious referent of a spate of earlier films, and the concept of cinema in general. Vishnu (Abhay Deol) i... Read more »

There’s a cute joke in the opening frame of Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho. It shows a dictionary page on which ‘narcolepsy’, a ... Read more »

Financial crises; opportunistic coalitions; European unity in peril; right-wing extremists banging on parliament’s doors. Despite these woes (or perhap... Read more »

With its sparkling divas and muscled he-men, Hollywood in its heyday was a barely closeted champion of queer culture. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, ... Read more »

In Banaz - A Love Story, detective Caroline Goode explains that solving a murder is often motivated by helping a victim’s family to cope with their los... Read more »

The insane haze-filled dream sequence during which Mia Farrow is impregnated by the devil in Rosemary’s Baby; close-ups of post-coital sweat-dripping s... Read more »

Regarded as an apogee of misogynistic bad taste by some, admired as baroque, satirical camp by others, the GFT’s Bad Movie Night! is offering up Showgi... Read more »

The Book of Gabrielle is a clever dramedy about an intimate yet platonic relationship that develops between a female graphic artist and an older male erotic ... Read more »

There are various unimaginative, practical minded reasons for disparaging 3D but, rather than wasting time listing them, instead it is worth remembering ... Read more »

Watching the trailer for Woody Allen’s latest Midnight in Paris, it looks to be a familiar blend of jittery existentialism, piss-taking of pseudo-intel... Read more »

When the surrealist movement first opened its floodgates to the subconscious in the 1920s, communism was still a respectable cause for lefty artists. Andr&ea... Read more »

Our Contemporaries is dystopian sci-fi pared down to basic components. Mookyoung Shin’s futuristic nightmare mixes automation with bureaucracy. Rows ... Read more »

A minimalist concept masks a complex combination of media in Juste Janulyte’s Sandglasses. Four cellists are encapsulated within large tulle columns, h... Read more »

"The head, heart, and hairy area below the stomach is what should be stimulated at the cinema.” George Kuchar’s simple aphorism aptly sums up his... Read more »

Cristian Mungiu established himself with the Palme D’Or-winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, a gritty tale of illegal abortion and rape in Communist... Read more »

Breakfast with Curtis began life when painter and publisher Theo Green made a series of quirky YouTube videos with teenager Jonah Parker. These vignettes hav... Read more »

This year’s Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) features productions with 170 male directors against 29 female ones. The ratio for work competing in the Intern... Read more »

Sarah Pucill’s film Magic Mirror hovers somewhere between a love letter to its subject, French Surrealist Claude Cahun, and a critical self-examination... Read more »

Archipelago can’t help but stand out as a depiction of wealthy toffs. In a repeat of the central motif of director Joanna Hogg’s debut film Unrel... Read more »

Amidst a barrage of stellar feature length screenings in this year’s Glasgay! festival, a weekend of short films pays homage to the little guys. The se... Read more »

In Sandra Alland’s documentary I’m Not Your Inspiration, artist Nathan Gale recounts watching TV talent show Got to Dance when a troupe of dancer... Read more »

There was a meme circulating around Facebook not long ago featuring an inquisitive velociraptor asking why ‘gay marriage’ was a thing when people... Read more »

In Land of Silence and Darkness, Fini Straubinger makes her first ever journey on a plane, a birthday gift from Werner Herzog, who’s making a documenta... Read more »